Charu Shankar plays Mehrunissa in EPIC channel’s show Malikaa, which is based on Indu Sunderesan’s The Twentieth Wife
Charu Shankar, an actress who did a cameo in Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling limited and Mira Nair’s Reluctant Fundamentalist, will play Mehrunissa in EPIC channel’s Malikaa — fiction show adapted from Indu Sunderesan’s book The Twentieth Wife. Actress says that “the story of Mehrunissa made her grab the role.” She added, “Malikaa will depict the tale of the rise of a woman behind the veil — Mehrunissa, who went on to become the most powerful queen of that dynasty — empress Nur Jahan, the twentieth and the last wife of Emperor Jehangir.”
She is having a royal time shooting for the show at the lakshmi Vilas Palace in Bikaner. “I have almost started feeling like a princess. It was important as an actress to get into the skin of the character and feel like her,” she commented.